Tinight i'm making lahmajun!
....Or lahmajoon, lamacun, or lahm bi ajeen...however you prefer to spell it.
Basically, it's Turkish lamb mice pizza, which tastes amazing when served with an assortment of crispy fresh herbs and vegetables, ie white radish, Lebanese cucumber, tomato, parsley, lemon, and Greek yoghurt.
I serve mine with a yoghurt drink also...but you don't have to.
My kids absolutely ardour it, so always make a triple quantity of the meat mix, so it's ready at hand when they want to spread a ready bought flat bread with a lil olive oil , the meat mix, and some sesame seeds... then into the oven.
The trick is to make sure you squeeze out the moisture in the chopped tinned tomatoes either by hand or through muslin.., or else you will end up with a soggy base.
I use an amazing recipe, I was fortunate enough to have been given by Sydney's best Turkish pide joint in Auburn.
Before I left a nearby suburb back in the early 2000's
They had gotten to know me, and given I advised I would miss their lamacun and pides, they scrawled down the ingredients 'roughly' for me in the time it took them to cook my last
lamacun from their shop.
Given they didn't add precise quantities, ie....a handful of parsley, an some mint, etc...it was trial and error at first, but I now have it down to a fine art.
We have a Turkish pide joint here where I live, but the recipe I was given puts theirs to shame so I don't bother buying it....it's just as simple making my own....as simple as making a pizza.
Also, I don't scrimp on some of the fresh ingredients, this or the topping, so mine is even better than the one I used to buy from them even....so..
Even If I do say so myself.
...If any of you are interested in the recipe, let me know and I might feel generous enough to put it up ......MIGHT!!
Cheers